This theory has definitely been floated around. If it's true how long do you think her "captors" would let her stay alive with all this publicity? Her face is plastered all over every cable outlet aroung the world.
Realistically, not very long. :-(
I keep hoping this gang is so arrogant, having have paid LE in many countries to look the other way, that Natalee may still be alive.
Almost everyone involved has been stonewalling. Those in power and control are pulling the strings. No one dare spill the beans unless they have a real death wish.
I would tell Holland and their "friendly little islands" to go to hell, but they're already there.
"This theory has definitely been floated around. If it's true how long do you think her "captors" would let her stay alive with all this publicity? Her face is plastered all over every cable outlet aroung the world."
Not sure if anyone saw this. It was posted on RW and/or SM about a week ago.
http://www.interlinediscounts.com/nataleebrunette.htm
I think you may have hit the nail on the head.
I too have thought for the last couple of weeks that the theory that Natalee might have been abducted (either into the sex slavery trade on the South American continent, or as an object of ransom).
To me, that theory has more plausibility than the idea that these three boys murdered her --and were somehow able to hide her body so effectively, in such a short window of time.
But now that Natalee's face has been "plastered all over every cable outlet aroung the world," she may have become too hot a property, so to speak, to hold on to.
If this is so, her abductors will have likely done away with her very, very thoroughly, so that no trace of her will never be found.
Sadly, this could be the result of her parents taking the wrong tack in this case. (And before I get royally flamed for daring to say that, please note that I don't blame them at all. If I were in their shoes, I probably would be doing the same thing.)
With hindsight (which may be 20/20, or not), it might have been better for Natalee's parents to have kept a lower profile. Huge publicity supposedly does help in some kidnapping cases; but here, it may be the wrong thing to do.
The best thing Natalee's parents could have done, if this theory is correct, would've been to quietly hire a team of private investigators, right off the bat, to see what they could find BOTH in Aruba AND on the South American continent. Natalee's family appear to be wealthy people, so likely this would not have been a huge financial hardship.
I mean, fuhgeddabout the Dutch marines and the Aruban government! If there ever was any hope that those people would be helpful, there isn't much now. Not after they've been insulted and angered, primarily by the obnoxious American media.
And also in retrospect, it would appear that "putting all their eggs in one basket," as Greta put it, is a major mistake.
By focusing almost obsessively on the notion that Joran, his father and the two Kalpoe boys "have the key" to unlocking the mystery, and apparently discouraging other lines of inquiry, the parents may not be helping.
The fact that no new information is coming out of these kids could, just possibly, mean that that neither the van der Sloots nor the Kalpoes have any idea what ultimately happened to Natalee.
(Why did they start out lying, then? Maybe they were covering up some relatively minor crimes, such as drug dealing, and genuinely thought, as the security guard Mr. Johns put it, that Natalee would "turn up in a couple of days" and they would be off the hook.)
Very sorry to say this, but it might turn out to be the cold, hard reality. (And again, I don't blame the parents one bit. They're doing what comes naturally. It's just that THAT may turn out to be the wrong thing.)